Armel is the third in a family of four boys. His father is a mattress-maker, a merchant of cereals, and his grandfather, a merchant of horses. Armel became an intern at the Bastogne seminary at the age of twelve. Latin and Greek formed the basis of his pedagogy. He also learned the piano and played in the school's orchestra. He also experimented with theater during the traditional student play. He pursued university studies at the University of Liège. He became a candidate in philosophy and letters, a graduate in classical philology and an associate in upper secondary education.
Public life
He was engaged as a professor of Latin and Greek at the seminary of Bastogne, where he was a pupil before. He taught there for twenty-three years and held various management positions from 1993 to 2010. The father of three daughters, he lives in the Bastogne region. Throughout his career he published specialized articles in the Journals of Belgian Catholic Education and continued to work on translations of Latin and Greek. He left teaching in 2010 to devote himself to his literary work. In 2011, he created the Prix du 2e roman francophone, a popular prize that immediately met with great popularity. Armel Job has published about twenty novels. His Fausses innocences was adapted to cinema under the same title by in 2009. Armel Job is also a theater writer. His play Le Conseil de Jerusalem was presented as a reading show in Liège, Brussels, Paris, within the framework of the Popular Universities of the Theater of.
2005: Grand prix Jean-Giono for Les Fausses Innocences, a novel that unfolds in the German-speaking part of Belgium.
2007: Prix de la personnalité Richelieu; Ce prix, attribué par l'ensemble des clubs belges et luxembourgeois du Richelieu international, récompense une personnalité pour sa contribution à la promotion de la langue et de la culture françaises.
2010: for Tu ne jugeras point
2011: Prix des lycéens de littérature, he received the two prizes at stake, the prix des délégués and the prix des lycéens for his novel published in 2009, Tu ne jugeras point. He is thus, with, one of the few authors to have been awarded twice by young readers of the prix des lycéens.
Prix Marcel-Thiry de la Ville de Liège for Dans la gueule de la bête''
2011: Officier de l'Ordre du.
Chevalier de la Pléiade, ordre de la Francophonie et du dialogue des Cultures
